gistfile1.txt

Go into domain folder
transfer or run a new install of laravel
git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel example.com
cd example.com
 
// get composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -d allow_url_fopen=On
 
// install composer, use latest (as laravel >4.2 requires PHP >= 5.4)
// go into composer.json and update php to php-latest under "scripts"
php-latest -d allow_url_fopen=On composer.phar install
 
// generate a key for laravel 
php-latest artisan key:generate
 
// change the path of the public to html
mv public html
 
Update bootstrap/paths.php to point to html instead of public